Show 4 DAILY HEALTH SERVICE I Prompt Treatment Is Vital ital in in inI J J I Case of Infantile Paralysis S By DR MORRIS ORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and nd of Hygeia the Health Magazine Lust Last cull all ni an a epidemic u of infantile tl tile hitra struck in lit Ontario anil alli 47 ca cacS cs were reported h by l- l clans Of Ur the time 41 H who were affected 17 died The flie Is 18 Ol one of le the most m menacing a I ii g that I ma t affects Is cl children I I I d since It is 11 likely to produce ex extensive ex- ex crippling and ald make tal life tc jome u of a a. burden after recovery mccoy mccoy- el ery One of tho greatest of or I the lie m medical profession proCession toda today IM is tho the development le o of menus for restoring proper roer motion and und growth th to lo limbs lw that t 1 have lmae l c I shortened or 01 V. V wasted away after in infante infantile in- in fante paralysis 1 The Time 1 moat t sl significant fc brought out l I by y n. n I study ludy o of tho epidemic in iii Toronto was that time the U uso f of ot cr 1 taken from front those who vIm have IH C i 1 front from the thic cl disei ene c 1 Is Instrumental mental in preventing an and death If IC the time set is given as ax soon foon a as possible lo after the he disease e 1 Is discovered three Seventy cases caes which were cre dla diagnosed nosed on Oi tile the first ir t tl l day t of oC illness iness were given I tho serum scrum and not one of or these children died With each succeeding hay day tny of oC ine illness after the time first the tendency toward fatal termination is fN in him In- creased Moreover tim the likelihood of or multiple paralyses and of extensive exten exten- sive sie parly paralysis IH is Irp greater tho tIme later I in tho the progress of tho ho disease the treatment is i. i undertaken Indeed It Il has imas been ben found that time the giving lnE i of oC the convalescent serum scrum after aCet paralysis has lias actually occurred seems to tu be Ie of oC little benefit lien ben In O the thc paralysis While hUe tho the statistics may be tie interpreted interpreted inter inter- in various ways it fuU quite certain that thin t the time earlier proper 3 treatment rent I Is undertaken cn time the better It I Is for the time patient It 1 i Is recognized that tIme tho d lion lon of or th the by Is 11 a form fonn nf nr f Injury which la Is k ic 1 lal likely to lo 3 yield to treatment tha than J any ly other oIlier Injury In lit the tue human hoI body Nerve e t tissue Issue sue Is the mout h highly specialized ecla NI 11 delicate tissue tOtt that thal we ha have hallence 1 Hence lemice whatever t ii h tm to tu be lie done In lit II the tIme control of or t.-CK t. conditions I Iii must IUt he be done promptly Stores und mind IO more immure parents at- at tIC j ht he pinning to learn that lint the lie 11 Patti path lh of ot safety lies M I In Iii II getting medical n at t trillion lon at the earliest arest c nig particularly In Iii JI any of th the In jn child conditions which k |